Words: , Sal­va­tion Mel­o­dies No. 1 (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Perk­in­pine & Hig­gins, 1874).

Music: Trust (Stock­ton), , 1869; re­frain by , 1873.

While on the way to Eng­land with Mr. Moo­dy in 1873, one day in mid-ocean, as I was look­ing over a list of hymns in my scrap-book, I no­ticed one com­menc­ing, “Come ev­ery soul by sin op­pressed”…Be­liev­ing that these words had been so of­ten sung that they were hack­neyed, I de­cid­ed to change them and tell how to come to Je­sus by sub­sti­tut­ing the words, “On­ly trust him.” In this form it was first pub­lished in “Sac­red Songs and So­los” in Lon­don. While hold­ing meet­ings in Her Ma­jes­ty’s The­a­ter in Pall Mall, Lon­don, and sing­ing this hymn, I thought I would change the chor­us again, and asked the peo­ple to sing “I will trust Him”…Then as we sang I de­cid­ed to change it once more, and asked them to sing “I do trust him.” God blessed this ren­der­ing of the hymn to eight per­sons pre­sent, who tes­ti­fied af­ter­ward that by the change they were led to ac­cept sal­va­tion.

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“I am much in­ter­est­ed in sac­red songs,” writes a mis­sion­ary in Eng­land, “be­cause it was the first verse of ‘On­ly Trust Him’ that opened the door of my heart to let the Mas­ter in­to my soul in all his ful­ness. I was in the ar­my, and found my way to the Wool­wich Sol­diers’ Home, where I heard the Gos­pel; and for a fort­night I was grop­ing in the dark for peace, when one ev­en­ing I heard the sing­ing of ‘On­ly Trust Him,’ which brought light in­to my soul. I have ev­er since been hap­py, serv­ing Him with my whole heart. I am now a mis­sion­ary to my com­rades.